To "Make it New"
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"Modernity is the tranistory, the fugitive, the contingent, one half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable" - Baudelaire The Modern Movement in Architecture put faith in the liberating aspects of industrialization and mass democracy. It also was different from the other arts in that it furthered the ideology of industrialization & progress. In most other fields, Modernism fought or lamented these trends. Modernism was the first great ideological response to this social crisis and the breakdown of a shared religion. Modern Architecture had failed to communicate with its users. Partly because it didn't make effective links with the city and history. Cheap prefabrication, lack of personal 'defensible' space, and the alienating housing estate. Explosions became a frequent method of dealing with the failure of Modernist building methods:
No similar 'death' of Modernism in any other artistic fields. "This is the problem: is the course of modernity reversible, and is that reversal itself irreveraible?" - Baudrillard |
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